And Now Ensemble!

By Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Hans Kolhoff, Adam Caruso, et al.

And Now the Ensemble is intended as a challenge to architects, their clients, and commissioning authorities to understand and create urban development as a dynamic and collective work of art; in short, to make dialogue central to design. Design, atmosphere, and use can make every new building relate to its local surroundings. As a design process, this contextual expansion does not simply imitate the urban pattern, but interprets what is already there, to some extent modernizes it, makes the familiar alien by employing unusual atmospheric imagery, and ultimately transforms the accumulated chaos of soloists into an orchestrated whole.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3037783117
• ISBN13: 9783037783115
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.4"